Should everyone breed?
I considered calling this blog post “The need to breed” (as that was a much more catchy title) but that would not be technically correct for what I am trying to explain. To me, one of the biggest issues that human race now faces is its rapid expansion, which...
Do humans just create their own problems?
Man has over its time on earth solved many of its problems. It has evolved and adapted and overcome many challenges. In doing so it has become a very populus species. Indeed it would seem to be one of the most populus mammals there is; certainly of the large...
Are humans still ruled by “Survival of the fittest”?
The terms “Survival of the fittest” is in itself sometimes taken as a slight misrepresentation of what Darwin actually meant but it is how most people know the theory of evolution and natural selection. The basic principle is that a species evolves and changes to best suit its environment....
My first post
So the original idea for this blog actually occurred before blogs really existed. It was about 20 years ago at university when I thought it might be interesting to apply evolutionary concepts to the human race and compare how we stack up against other animals. I even wrote a...